Bodies of 5 Afghans found in Pakistan returned to families

ISLAMABAD: Five bullet-riddled bodies found hanging from an electric pole in Dalbandin city, close to the borders with Afghanistan and Iran in Balochistan province last week, were of Afghan nationals and have been returned to their families, Kabul’s embassy in Islamabad said Thursday.

A statement from the Afghan embassy said the bodies were handed over to families at the Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing on Wednesday shared between the neighbours. Their consulate in Balochistan made “serious efforts” to return the bodies to waiting relatives in Afghanistan. “The five Afghans were brutally killed by unknown people,” said the statement shared on Thursday.